I've played a lot of really punishing games (especially on the NES) such as Battletoads, The Adventures of Batman & Robin on the Sega Genesis, the NTSC version of Shadow of the Beast on the Genesis, the original Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Silver Surfer, Air Fortress, so on a so forth but i want to know, which really difficult games you games have played? Just curious...

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Like @-=FamilyGuy=-, mine would have to be Volgarr the Viking. I played the Xbox One version and never made it past the second level boss... Luckily it was free through Games with Gold.

Yeah, the NES library has some of the hardest games. I wish "Nintendo Hard" still existed with Nintendo.

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If you want Nintendo Hard, try the volleyball minigame in Mario Odyssey. Getting anywhere near 100 hits is impossible, I tried for 2 hours straight and eventually gave up. When I start looking around for the rest of the power moons after beating the game, it will definitely be the hardest one to get.

7 years and 2 platforms I play this on (x360,steam) and I still suck so bad I cannot 106% the game, let alone speedrun it in an hour like some of these freaks (joking, I love watching people speedrun this game)
Also, I cannot wait for SMB Forever (2018) !!

Damn, that's cool! I've yet to finish Ikaruga. I've finished Gradius III on SNES with Arcade difficulty. I've beated Super R-Type on Hard but it'll rape you brutally on Pro once you get to Stage 6. D-Force on Hard gives you nothing but pure bullshit. I've also finished Raiden Trad on the SNES as well on the highest difficulty settings but i gotta finish it also on Genesis.

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Nice! I have SUper R-Type, R-Type III & R-Type kicking around somewhere and somewhat embarrassingly have never beaten any of them. :x

Agh! Revenge of Shinobi. Now U've opened an old wound. Managed to complete it once, the end boss was a beast!

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Revenge of Shinobi wasn't super difficult once you had the boss patterns and levels semi-memorised, I managed to complete it multiple times without too much trouble. The end boss was admittedly more tricky though, because I could never seem to quite 100% accurately predict if he was going to do a fast hair chucking move or a slow one. I must admit I was cheating little tinker back then though and used to use the infinite shurikens cheat. It wasn't until many years later I found out that you could get a bad ending as well as the good one, because I was just so hard wired to shooting the shurikens into the thingy that stopped your girlfriend from getting crushed. Such a great game, I must give it another play through some time soon!

Those are just to name a few that I've successfully beaten. What works for me is when it becomes stressful I just try again the next day. This for most part never fails me. It allows me to clear my head and think logically about how I can approach it in a way I'll likely
succeed. Though I'm the type of person where if it's not relentless than it's not rewarding. Besides I like to create my own challenges where I have limited amount of resources or improvements made to my character. In my opinion this enhances it's replay value while somewhat still introducing a familiar experience.

Japanese Mario 2 was made harder than 1. That one I would call a bit difficult. After that is when Mario games slowly progressed in an "easier" fashion. Mario 3 and World are pretty easy.

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Glad you mentioned that one. You could say JPN Super Mario 2 is brutal, as it is quite a bit harder than the first. So much so that they didn't even release it here officially until All Stars for the SNES.

Idk if I'd call it brutal, but world 8 certainly is hard. Kiddy me never managed to beat that game.

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It was just hard enough that I felt like a fucking champion when I finally beat it as a young child. Super Mario is in some of my earliest memories, I literally grew up with it, so I guess I got a lot of practice in